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	<description>It's about Emerson, fencing, painting, writing, absurdities, aikido, politics, spirit, rock 'n' roll, Thoreau, science fiction, beauty...  and getting down       with my bad side</description>
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		<title>Haida Gwaii Watercolor, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This continues a much earlier post, Haida Gwaii Watercolor, Part I, when I first began exploring doing a watercolor painting of the North Beach area near Tow Hill on the Queen Charlotte Islands, off the west coast of British Columbia. (The Islands are known more and more by their Haida people&#8217;s name, Haida Gwaii.)
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		<title>Scam Baiting: The Hobby</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still get spam at my work email, although my home email and WordPress itself have very successful spam blockers in place.
The spam I occasionally get at work is all of the fraud variety&#8230; there are no pharmaceutical or extension technology sales being offered, for which I am grateful.
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		<title>Play: The Serious, The Weird and The Lighthearted</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Culture is&#8230; played from the very beginning.&#8221;
&#8211; Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens
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		<title>Aging Guitar Enthusiast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As noted in the recent post Manchild with Guitar, I&#8217;ve taken up the guitar again after about 45 years.  I&#8217;m now pleased to report that I know more about what I&#8217;m doing with it than I did when I was 13 going on Eric Clapton.
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		<title>Thoughts On Bad Reviews for the Movie &#8220;Crossing Over&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We watched the movie Crossing Over a couple of weeks ago at home.  It&#8217;s come out fairly recently on DVD.
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human body is an amazing thing.  As I become one with my new guitar, under the skin of the fingertips on my left hand small pads of calluses have formed.  They are a sign not only of a new adaptation to an instrument I haven&#8217;t picked up in over forty years, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fencer.wordpress.com&blog=201582&post=853&subd=fencer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Masculine Upbringing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That winter after my father died of a stroke, I sharpened, rather poorly, our Homelite chain saw, filled it with mixed oil and gas, and went out to cut and haul firewood with the help of my younger brothers.  I was 12; my brothers three and four years younger.  My mother urged us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fencer.wordpress.com&blog=201582&post=839&subd=fencer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Like A Baboon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 04:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fencer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across an article this week that shows baboons to be more intelligent than dogs, with a story about a female baboon herding goats.
Now dogs herd animals too.  But this mother baboon understood the relationships between the goats&#8230; so much so that the baboon would take a bleating kid from one barn to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fencer.wordpress.com&blog=201582&post=830&subd=fencer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unusual WordPress Blogs I Have Found</title>
		<link>http://fencer.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/unusual-wordpress-blogs-i-have-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fencer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started blogging on WordPress I was intrigued by the whole scene.  With my first halting posts (as opposed to recent halting posts), I ventured into this brave new world with trepidation and anticipation.
What if I gave a party (or wrote a post) and nobody came?  Then I realized it didn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fencer.wordpress.com&blog=201582&post=817&subd=fencer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes and the Internet</title>
		<link>http://fencer.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/notes-and-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fencer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time I obsess over some part of the writing process.  Unfortunately it&#8217;s often other than writing itself.
Lately, I&#8217;m trying to figure out the best way to take notes and keep track of my web searches for a fiction project I&#8217;ve been working on for a long time now.
I have organized quite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fencer.wordpress.com&blog=201582&post=815&subd=fencer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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